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DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data

Peter Schneider-Kamp, Jacob Nielsen, Gianluca Barmina, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Lukas Galke Poech

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Published 2026-08-13 · First seen 2026-08-14

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Current large language model development relies on massive, often non-permissible datasets, creating a high barrier for researchers committed to open-source and ethically sourced data. We introduce Mimir v1, a 1-billion-parameter language model based on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) architecture, that is trained from scratch and delivers highly competitive performance for English and sets a new state of the art for Danish using only permissible post-training data. Trained on a mixture of 161 datasets, Mimir v1 outperforms the original HRM-Text 1B and competes with larger frontier models like Qwen 3.5 4B and Gemma 4 E2B, tested across 20 benchmarks for English, Math & Code and Danish. The model is available on the Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/danish-foundation-models/DFM-Mimir

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@article{schneiderkamp2026dfm,
  title = {DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data},
  author = {Peter Schneider-Kamp and Jacob Nielsen and Gianluca Barmina and Kenneth Enevoldsen and Lukas Galke Poech},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Current large language model development relies on massive, often non-permissible datasets, creating a high barrier for researchers committed to open-source and ethically sourced data. We introduce Mimir v1, a 1-billion-parameter language model based on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) architecture, that is trained from scratch and delivers highly competitive performance for English and sets a new state of the art for Danish using only permissible post-training data. Trained on a mixture o},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13517},
  keywords = {cs.CL, cs.AI},
  eprint = {2608.13517},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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